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Pura Vida Adventures is excited to be offering Hunger Games Tours this year due to the high demand and request from our past clients.

“The reason we are getting such a high demand for Hunger Games Tours is two fold explains,” Joe Moerschbaecher, owner of Pura Vida Adventures. “We have been running similar tours to the Hunger Games Tours for over 6 years and our survival courses which have been very popular even before the Hunger Games existed are becoming more popular because fans are realizing many of the skills we teach in these courses are the same as those important for survival in the movie.”

Pura Vida adventures has designed two seperate tours specifically for Hunger Games fans. The first visits the areas of Dupont State Forest where Hunger Games was filmed this tour will also provide you with details on what went on in the forest last summer when Hunger Games was being filmed.

The half day Dupont Hunger Games tour is $75 a person and lasts 3-4 hours

The full day Dupont Hunger Games tour is $100 a person and last 6 hours.

Learn from your experienced survival guide, Joe Moerschbaecher as he teaches you the survival skills necessary to survive the Hunger Games. This tour focuses primarily on the nonviolent survival skills including fire and shelter building, knot tying, snares, off trail travel, and navigation. After the skills are taught tributes will be paired in groups of two and practice the skills on their own and be evaluated for their power rankings in these survival areas.

Pura Vida Adventures approach is a sustainable one we will limit all tours and survival classes to 12 ppl in order to minimize our impact on the environment as well as provide ample attention to our tributes during survival skills classes and Dupont Hunger Games Tours. In addition tributes will be required to hike easy to moderate trails to access the areas where the Hunger Games were filmed and the best areas where survival skills can be taught.

Tours available any day of the week, reservations are strongly recommended call 772-579-0005 or email contact@pvadventures.com for more details or book a trip.

Last spring I was contacted by a movie location scout, they were referred to me because they were looking for an area to shoot a waterfall scene for an upcoming movie. I hesitantly provided them with some information and advice on area waterfalls that might suite their needs. They were curious if I would take them out to look at the various locations and I said sure and quoted them my daily guide rate.

I never heard back from this location scout. A little over a year later the Hunger Games filming is complete and the movie is set to premiere nation wide. I have been able to confirm based on the scene description provided to me by the location scout that the movie they were filming was the Hunger Games.

Funny enough last summer while doing my normal tours of Dupont State Forest, which I have done for the past 8 years, we ran across a massive camp of RV’s tables, chairs, and cameras on numerous occassions. This was all part of the Hunger Games filming.

What is my point to this story? Well numerous companies are jumping on this Hunger Games bandwagon offering Hunger Games tours and trying to cash in on the locations where this blockbuster was filmed. The funny thing to me is I have been doing Hunger Games Tours since before Hunger Games the movie even existed. Walking and running around in the woods crawling under waterfalls and swimming in the pools below them is what we do. In the movie this is what the charcters will do as well.

So when you look to take your Hunger Games Tour this spring or summer come with us we have been doing it longer than anyone else around and our knowledge of the area can be well attested to as those that produced the movie came to us for area advice.

Ask us about our Hunger Games Tours which range in price from $75-$150 a person.

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We wanted to thank you so much for the great time we had on Saturday. We had a blast and can't wait to do it again! -Adela Fernandez

I wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed our hike on Monday and the extra little rope work was fun and added to the experience. Good luck, I know from my hiking experience on Monday that you will go far and I look forward to seeing you again on a future visit of mine. -Caroline Liederer

We look forward to another adventure. Thank you for your patience and help. We had a great time. -Shelia Berger